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A RACE FOR LIVES.

Tlie Expected Tetter. A Hurricane. Robert’s
Perilous Ride. Trot the Hero of the Hour.

YER two years had passed since father
left home on his last sea voyage. Our
first letter was received from him only
ten days after he started; our second,
two months; but the third letter,— it
was still due. Mother, a patient, hope¬
ful woman, still looked for that third
letter, but w 7 e children had long since
given up all hopes of ever hearing from
Father again. The perils of the sea, the

ravages of disease in an unaccustomed climate suggested the
most direful conclusions.

We four comprised the household which would have been one
of the merriest w r ere it not for the absence of Father.

I remember how we used to spend long winter evenings to¬
gether, by the fireside, reading aloud to one another, and tell¬
ing stories; and how Mother would sometimes bring out the
tw o letters from Father which were soiled and deeply creased
through usage, and read them to us again. It seemed to give
her fresh hope arid courage each time she read the second
letter, as if it had been a recent one whose contents had not
been noted. Father w r as then in Australia, where he hoped to
meet with success, and return in the spring. But spring had
passed, then the second spring, and the months were rolling on
towards the completion of another year, without bringing to
us a single word of hope or warning.

It was about this time, I remember, that an exciting incident
occurred which will never pass from my memory. The wind
had been blowing at a high speed all day. In the evening it
increased, and whistled boisterously down the chimney at us,
as we sat around the fire. It made the flames leap up, and at
times dart out towards us, but w T e were glad of the warmth,
and drew' our chairs closer than usual to the fire. Bed-time
passed, but none of us moved from our positions, for we

Then Fastening His Coat to a Stick Robert Signals the Express as it Comes Tearing around the Curve.

My older brother Robert did all he could to make Mother
comfortable and happy. He took Father’s place on the farm
and performed his work w r ell. I helped Robert all I could,
but I was quite young then, and spent most of my time in

school. Sister Helen wrns Mother’s chief support in the house.

feared that the ell, containing the bed chambers, might at any
moment be torn from the main portion of the house, and

swept into the valley below 7 . All that night we heard strange
noises caused by the wind, the falling of branches in the forest,
and the howling of a pack of wolves. That night seemed

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ages to me, and I longed for daybreak. All my
courage had left me at sunset but I hoped to re¬
gain it in the morning.

It was now almost four o’clock and beginning to
get light. Mother and Helen had at last fallen
asleep in their chairs, but Robert and I were still
awake. For several minutes the wind had gone
down, but only to recover strength for a final
sweep which would dash to pieces everything lack¬
ing a strong resistence. It shook the house to its
foundation, tore off* a blind or two, swept an old
horse shed over the bank, and ended with a ter¬
rible crash in the distance.

Robert sprang to his feet, ran to the window,
and exclaimed, “The rail-road bridge has gone
down !” Then glancing at the clock he added, ex¬
citedly, “In five minutes the express will be along,
and one hundred passengers will be lost in the
river !”

Without stopping to make any further explana¬
tions Robert ran to the barn, and in a moment
more was dashing down the road on the back of
old Trot. When he reached the lane he turned
into it and then drove at full speed down the steep
hill towards the rail-road. It was a most perilous
ride. Had his horse made one false step Robert
would have been thrown headlong on the rocks.
The lane was crooked and uneven, and Trot
stumbled and slipped over rolling stones, stumps,
and underbrush.

Now in the lane, how out of it, but on, on, faster,
and faster, gaining impetus through the descent,the
faithful animal and his rider seemed to be spurred
by the same motives. Rut hark! there is the
whistle; the train is passing the crossing, and will
soon be around the curve—and in a moment more
dashed to pieces in the torrent! And half a mile
yet to be covered by Trot in less time than it
takes to describe it!

Robert glances ahead to behold a new danger.
Below him a high gate separates the pasture
through which he has been riding from a level
field beyond. The gate was closed ! Robert exerts
all his strength to stop the horse from dashing
against it but is unable to check his speed. The
next moment the fatal spot is reached, but luckily
the danger is averted by faithful Trot who clears
the gate at one leap, and continues his course over
the level field without stopping until he arrives at
the side of the railroad.

Then fastening his coat to a stick Robert had
just time enough to signal the express as it came
tearing around the curve. The heavy train slowed
up gradually until it finally came to a full stop
within less than an eighth of a mile of the demol¬
ished bridge which was hidden from view by a
second curve beyond. The passengers rushed to
the platform to discover the cause of the delay,
and as soon as they fully realized the situation—
the awful fate they had been delivered from— be¬
stowed heaps of praises upon Robert their rescuer.
But Robert wasnnwilling to be called the hero of
the hour, and pointing to old Trot exclaimed—

“Gentlemen, it is to this faithful animal that y ou
owe your lives to-day.”

While the above was taking place I was exert¬
ing all my strength to reach the scene of action by
means of a pair of short, unsteady legs which
trembled incessantly because of my fright. When
I reached the foot of the hill I saw a crowd of
people surrounding # two men and a horse. The
horse was Trot and one of the men Robert,—but
who could the other be ? I ran up nearer, forced
my way through the crowd, and looking into the
midst beheld Father ! There he stood embracing
his oldest son who had saved his life with the rest.
Was it an apparition? I was so exhausted by the
long run, and by the shock the whole affair had
given my nervous system, that I could not believe
my eyes until I, too, was clasped in the arms of
my beloved parent.

Such a scene of rejoicing I had never witnessed
before. Everybody was shouting himself hoarse
in praise of Robert and because of the unexpected
meeting of father and sons. Even the whistle on
the locomotive shared in the vociferation. But it
would not do for the train to remain there longer.
It must run back some twenty miles to the nearest
junction to reach its destination over a branch
road.

As the passengers were about to leave Robert
and the rest of us they gave four final cheers
■ which re-echoed throughout the valley. One was
for Robert, another for Father, a third for our
whole family, and the last one for faithful old
Trot. Then the spokesman handed Robert an en¬
velope so full of something that it could scarcely
be sealed together, and the train went puffing
back, around the curve and out of sight.

Then Father, Robert and I went up the hill
towards home, Father relating to us on the way
his bitter experiences in Australia, where he had
been a prisoner for over two years, hemmed in
between the mountains in an unsettled part of the
continent, and removed from any communication
with the rest of the world.

When we reached home there was a second re¬
joicing in which Mother and Helen participated.
It was the happiest day we had all had since
Father left home many months before.

I need not say in closing that the envelope
Robert received was full of five and ten dollar bills,
but in justification of Robert permit me to add
that Trot got a share of the reward in an extra
supply of oats three times each day.

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contain oil. The beans are first roasted and
shelled, then ground and crushed, and finally
mixed with sugar and vanilla. Through this
process the cocoa becomes chocolate.

The overseer now appeared, expressed his wil¬
lingness to show us around, and at once took us to
the second floor where the boiling is done. The
largest kettles I ever saw,—capable of holding
several barrels of sugar each,—stood in a row
along one side of the room. Near
at hand were several cooling tables
upon which the boiling mixture,
when properly cooked, was poured
to cool. Upon this table the candy
is worked with long paddles until
it becomes creamy white, after
which it is placed in large tubs,
where it remains a week to mellow.

This is for the interior of the choco¬
late cream. After a week has passed it is again
melted and flavored or colored, and run into
moulds.

Written for The Youth’s Realm.

Inside a Chocolate Bonbon Factory.

Y friend stopped me before a brick building
of large dimensions, exclaiming, “And
what can this be

He was in Boston on a short visit anc l j wag

In the moulding room we saw a hundred or more
wooden frames filled with corn starch. The
moulds are pressed into the starch and then re¬
moved, thus forming a matrix to be filled with
cream, jelley aud other ingredients of the bonbon.
Each frame contains no less than two hundred
moulds. A funnel-shaped dipper holds the cream
which is poured into the moulds. When the cream

showing him the sights.

“This is the bonbon factory,” ex¬
claimed I, “where a thousand
pounds of candy, or more, are
made every day.”

“A thousand pounds ! — more
than enough to go round,' I
should think. Do they feed
the beasts on it, up this way ?” j

“Oh no,” I replied, “but
you see this one factory sup¬
plies a large section 4 of the
country. Five hundred
hands are employed in the
manufacture of chocolate
candy in this establishment
alone,—quite enough to fill a
village. We have plenty of
time on our hands, and since
I am acquainted with the
superintendent of the works,
suppose we step inside and
look around ?”

Nothing could please
my friend more than this
proposal, for, although he
was ashamed to confess
it, he had an appetite for
sweets equal to any school
girl’s.

We entered a large office
filled with busy clerks who
were attending to the correspondence and keeping
the numerous accounts of this wholesale confec¬
tionery establishment. We waited some moments
for my friend, the overseer, to appear. During
this interval I picked up a little book, an advertise¬
ment lying on the table, which gave me some use¬
ful information regarding the preparation of choc¬
olate from the cocoa bean.

In tropical America there grows a small tree,
about twelve feet in height, bearing long yellow
pods in the shape of the cucumber. Inside these
pods are a number of seeds, known as cocoa beans,
the kernels of which have a rich, bitter taste, and

has set the frame passes
through a kind of threshing-
machine which separates the
candies from the starch and
at the same time refills the
frame with fresh starch.
On the next floor clito is
made. Perhaps you
have eaten clito a doz¬
en times without
knowing what to call
it. Clito is nothing
more than a crisp molas¬
ses chip covered with
chocolate, but it is manu¬
factured in a separate depart¬
ment. After it has been
boiled and paddled on a slab
it is swung over an iron hook
and pulled until it becomes
almost white, and very brittle.
The man who does the pulling
has developed such a muscle
thereby, that my friend re¬
marked, “If the average gym¬
nast would divide his time be¬
tween chest-weight exercise and
candy pulling, no doubt he would
get along better.”

Our attention was next directed to
a large, hollow globe which revolved
over a furnace. My friend thought it

must be a new kind of corn popper, but the over¬
seer told us it was an almond roaster. The globe
holds several hundred pounds of nuts at a time,
so you see it could scarcely be called a plaything.
Roasted almonds, like almost everything else used
in this factory, are given a final coating of choco¬
late. . ,

As I said before, I was showing my friend the
sights of the city, and consequently did not think
it prudent to stop longer in this very sweet spot.
My friend, however, was disappointed at not being
able to see the hundred and one other novelties of
the factory. But a pound of candy pacified him.

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THE NOVA SCOTIA, I860, REMAINDERS.

From various sources, a little
here and there, considerable in¬
formation has leaked out concern¬
ing the Nova Scotia remainders.
The Halifax Philatelic Magazine
claims to know the most about
their history. It informs us that
Nova Scotia, immediately after

joining the Confederation, handed over the I860
remainders as collateral security for $20,000 due
the Dominion Government.

Then the stamps were put away, almost to be
forgotten. But a Halifax collector knew where they
were, and in company with several others offered
the Government the $20,000 for the lot. This offer
the Government readily accepted. Since then, as
everybody knows, the market has been flooded
with Nova Scotias, and prices have come down.

The “syndicate,” as it calls itself, paid ten cents
apiece for these rare stamps. The five-cent blue
of the above type did not appear in the lot, and in
the unused condition is still a rare stamp.

The New York Collector’s Club.

present designs, but instead the stamps will be
printed in new colors. Just when the change will
take place is kept a secret.

THE GREAT ENGLISH POST OFFICE.

The English Post Office employs nearly 140,000
persons. As there are about 39,000,000 inhabi¬
tants in Great Britain, one in every 280 is an
employe of the Post Office. The wages paid this
immense army of officials is $100,000 per day.
Each man, woman, and child receives, on an aver¬
age, about 71 pieces of mail matter in the course
of twelve months. In the United States the aver¬
age is 77 ; in Belgium, 51; in Switzerland, 46 ; in
France, 42 ; in Germany, 30 ; in Australia, 14 ; in
Italy, 14; and in Bussia, but 2.

In one year England exchanges 41,000,000 letters
with the United States, 25,750,000 with France,
25,333,000 with Germany, 6,500,000 with Italy and
4,000,000 with Bussia.

Seven beautiful bicolored stamps
bearing the head of the new Sultan
have been issued for the province of
Johore.

Mons. Jules Bernichon recently
paid 50,000 for an old collection of
stamps.

So many questions
have been raised re¬
garding the Miranda
set of speculative
stamps used for Venez-
uela, we herewith pre¬
sent a sketch of the
stamp. Previous comments on this stamp have been
made in former numbers of our paper.

The last monthly entertainment of the New
York Collector’s Club was a great success. Every¬
one present received a gift, or more properly
speaking a booby prize. Limberger cheese was
given to some, chocolate cigars to others, a hair
cutter to the party with football locks, and a
becoming wig to the member who follows the
other extreme in head decoration.

PECULIAR STAMP COLLECTIONS.

Like the farmers who keep their accounts on
barn doors or other extensive areas there are
a certain few collectors who ignore stamp albums,
and mount their specimens on walls or various
articles of furniture. The recent stamp plate craze
is an example of this fashion, which is carried to a
greater extent in the office of an English stamp
merchant who uses postage stamps in place of
wall paper. Upon his walls are arranged many
beautiful specimens of foreign stamps all in the
unused condition. A less expensive, but still more
elaborate arrangement of stamps has been made
by Mrs. George Wilson of Binghamton, N. Y. No
less than 862,000 stamps have been glued to a bed¬
room set of furniture consisting of a bedstead,
dresser, commode and chairs. Every portion of
the furniture has been covered by these stamps,
over which a thick coat of varnish has been placed.
Like paint the stamps can be washed without
injury.

The New U. S. Stamps.

From various sources we learn that the Bureau
of Engraving is preparing a new issue of U, S.
stamps. There will probably be no change in the

The current 5 cent stamp of Colum¬
bia is now printed on salmon paper
instead of pale buff.

The fact that the “Daily Stamp
Item,” the only daily stamp paper
that has ever been attempted, was
obliged to suspend publication a short time ago,
does not prove that the number of stamp collectors
is decreasing. The paper was never a success be¬
cause philatelists are interested in collecting
stamps, and not in spending all their time over
stamp literature. An occasional column of con¬
densed news is more inspiring to the average col¬
lector than a daily volume of stamp gossip.

It is now estimated that there are more than six
hundred thousand stamp collectors in the United
States alone. This is a remarkable record for a
pastime scarcely heard of twenty years ago.

A bio contract has just been awarded the Amer¬
ican Bank Note Company of New York for the
manufacture of Canadian revenue and postage
stamps, at a saving to the government of $120,000
as compared with the former Burland contract.
A new set of stamps will probably be the result of
this contract.

A priced catalogue of stamp literature is soon to
be published, making mention of some five thou¬
sand stamp papers, including back numbers. And
at the same time a directory of literature collec¬
tors will appear in another section of the country.

The Azores Islands will issue a new set of stamps.

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A collector has a complete sheet of seven Navy
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To help the beginner an interesting little book
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At the coming London Philatelic Exhibition
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trade. '■

Official Seals have been left out of the 1897
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Brazil is the next country to inflict upon us a
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Twenty years ago the following stamps, now
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24c, 30c. And yet some people will say that it
does not pay to collect stamps !

HIS OWN GOOD ENOUGH.

A Gentleman of means once became dissatis¬
fied with his magnificent residence, and
placed the estate in the hands of a broker
who offered to sell it for him. Not wishing to
acquaint the general public with his intentions,
however, he requested the real-estate agent to
write up an advertisement which would graphically
describe the property, and, at the same time, con¬
ceal its location.

One day,in looking over some advertising col¬
umns, in search of a new home, this discontented
gentleman read the notice of a certain piece of
property for sale, which so pleased him that he at
once made up his mind to purchase it. It con¬
tained extensive grounds, a fish-pond, excellent
driveways, a spacious mansion,—in fact everything
that he had been looking for.

The wealthy gentleman noticed that the same
broker who had undertaken the sale of his estate
also had the latter one for sale, and therefore
called upon his agent with the hope of effecting
an exchange of the two pieces of property.
Imagine the surprise of the rich gentleman when
he learned that the estate he desired to purchase
was his own property which had been truthfully
described in the advertising columns of the news¬
paper ! His attention having been drawn to the
charms of his beautiful home, he concluded it was
the best place he could possibly live in, paid the
agent his commission, and told him that there¬
after he would not sell his estate for three times
the price previously asked.

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AN OLD SHOE,

By MARTHA M’CTJLLOCH WILLIAMS

[Copyright, 1890, by the Author.]

Rick and Johnny leaned oyer the
front gate talking to Ben, who was in¬
side it, as the old man came in sight.
In fact, all three boys were talking, and
none of them listening until the stran¬
ger came up behind to say:

“Lads, I’m not the sort that begs—
never did it in my life—but I find my¬
self close on it now. I am going a long
journey, and one shoe has lost a sole.
I have no money to buy another nor to
pay for cobbling. So I must try and
trade with one or the other of you for
an old shoe. It may serve my turn un¬
til I can do better. ’’

“Hum-m-m! I call that pretty much
like begging,” Rick said, sticking his
hands in his pockets. Ben shut one eye
critically and" looked the old man over
before he said:

“Let us see how you want to trade.
My father has heaps of shoes past his
wearing that might be good enough for
you.”

“I will give you this for one,” the
stranger said, fumbling in his wallet
and fetching out of it a dry and with-

“PHO! YOU ARE SHARP AT A BARGAIN,
YOUNG SIR.”

ered root. Rick held out his hand for
it, tossed it up and down a minute,
then sent it spinning into the yard as
he said with a rough laugh:

“Oh, ho! You have been pillaging
Mother Wigram’sgarden! That is noth¬
ing more than one of her small onions,
and half rotten at that. Do you think
onions are such a rarity here you can
get whatever you want for one?”

The old man shook his head. Before
he could speak Ben had brought back
the despised root and thrust it in his
hand, saying:

“Go away. My father does not en¬
courage, beggar s.. If you ^ad gone

„ _ . _

stralgnt to fifin' at first and safcThonesf-

ly what your need was, I think h©
might have shod you, but he hates pre¬
tenders. ’ *

“So do I, ” said the old man, with an
odd smile, Johnny touched his sleeve
and said, lifting his cap:

“If you will wait, sir, I will run
home and bring you a good new shoe.
My grandfather was a one legged sol¬
dier. We have heaps of the odd shoes
he could rot wear, and my father, I am
sure, will be glad to give you one.”

“Thank you, lad,” the old man said.
Then he stumbled a little way back¬
ward and sat down at the roadside.
Rick and Ben made themselves very
merry over his ragged coat and battered
hat, but he did not appear to hear them,
or if he heard to mind their scorn. In¬
stead he chuckled gleefully and now
and then pinched himself or waved his
crook handled stick before him like a .
sword. When Johnny came running
back all out of breath, with the shoe
dangling from one hand and in the oth¬
er a big bun hot and fresh from his
mother’s oven, the stranger laughed
aloud.

“Good lad,” he said, patting John¬
ny’s head. “You are better than your
word. I will be better than mine. I of¬
fered in trade one root. Now I take
your gifts as freely as they are offered, as
you must take from me these three. Do
with them as you will. I think you can
be trusted to do well. ”

“Thank you, sir,” said Johnny, with
his best bow. Then he stooped and laced
the new shoe in place, picked up the
crook handled staff and helped the old
man, to rise. When the stranger had
walked away, nibbling the bun as he
went, Rick and Ben broke into derisive
laughing.

“Look out! Johnny’s going to start a
market garden. Mother Wigram will
have a rival, ” they said, holding their
Bides. Johnny laughed too.

“Ho! You are only jealous, ” he said.
“But you need not be. I will divide
with you. Let us take each a root,
plant it and see what comes from it.”

“Not I,” Ben said superciliously.
Rick took the root Johnny held out to
him, fingered it a minute, sniffed at it,
then threw it to a pig in the road, who
in turn sniffed at it, turned it over
with his snout, then trotted contemptu¬
ously away.

“There! That shows what they are
worth, these roots, ” Ben said, and Rick
added tauntingly, “You see, even a pig
will not touch them.” But Johuny ran
away home and set each root in a pot
of fair earth. One he meant to keep, the
other he took at once to Lame Donald,
whose mother was a widow, and who
could never get out with the other lads
to smell the new grass in the fields or
to watch the leaves grow big on the
trees. So he had the narrow kitchen
window full of pots and green things.

No tulip had ever such leaves, fine
and feathery, of the most agreeable fra¬
grance, as in a little while peeped above
the brown earth. It seemed as though
those in Lame Donald’s pot raced with
those in Johnny’s. Both grew magical¬
ly. The pots were soon masses of ten¬
der green. By and by there came up*
from the green masses each a straight
strong stalk full of buds at the tip, buds
that opened a little later into wonder¬
ful white flowers with hearts of spun
gold.

Mother Wigram came straight to see
them and cried out at the sight. “Nev¬
er was there anything finer,” she said.
“I know. I am wise in all manner of
things that grow. There aro no such
flowers in the kingdom. The king’s
gardener himself shall be told of them.”

But there was such talk of the rare
blossoms throughout the village it ran
on to the city and came to the king’s
gardener before Dame Wigram could
send him word. Straightway he set
forth to see them, and when he had
found them said once they were
worth a great price. But this in the ear
of the town councilor alone. Openly he
told those who clustered about him that
the white flowers were but prettily cu¬
rious, adding that the village might
wel l buy them at the few pence, they
were worth and send them to the young
princess for her birthday feast, which
fell upon Christmas day.

“Yes, that is the thing to do,” said
the town councilor, and the minister,
the doctor and the chief storekeeper
agreed with him. “We will give the
lads $1 each, ” they said, “and the
king’s gardener shall take back with
him the strange flowers before they
fade. He will tell the royal princess of
our loyal wishes, and when she comes
to reign over ns no doubt she will have
some special tenderness for our village
and its people. ”

But neither Johnny nor Lame Don¬
ald agreed with the wise men. “A dol¬
lar will buy much, ” they said, “but
nothing we should care for so much a®
our flowers.” Then, egged on by the
king’s gardener, the councilor went to
$5, to $10, at last desperately to $20,
and there he almost prevailed. “Twen¬
ty dollars! It would help my mother so
much,” Lame Donald said to Johnny,
but he sighed as he said it and looked
wistfully at the flowers. And Johnny
nodded and answered him: “Twenty
dollars, with the $101 have in my bank,
will buy, oh, the dearest pony! Ben
and Rick will be simply wild when
they see me ride by. But the flowers—
it seems they talk to me. I cannot bear
to think of selling them, though I
should like to give part of them to th©
beautiful princess.”

“Hum-m ! You would not give them
to me, I dare say,” somebody said just
outside Lame Donald’s window. Johnny
gave a little cry, for it was the strange
old man who stood there. He was more
bowed, more ragged and mean looking
than before, but Lame Donald caught
up his crutch, hobbled to the door and
flung it open, crying out: “Welcome!
Welcome, good sir!”

Johnny plucked at his sleeve. “Your
, mother may not like”— he began, but
■ Lame Donald stopped him short, saying,
with his rare smile: “She will not
mind. We both know we can trust any¬
body with eyes like Santa Claus.”

But there was nothing of Santa Claus
in his words when he had settled him¬
self in the armchair^ which,.,filled tij©

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7

warmest corner of the hearthside. ‘'‘Y'ou
have not done so badly, you two,” he
growled out, snuffing the fragrance of
the flowers, “but it would have gone ill
with you had you agreed to the plan of
that rogue of a gardener.- The roots
were but left in trust with this fellow,”
nodding at Johnny. “Now, I have come
to claim them for the rightful owner.
Of course, though, I shall have the de¬
cency to pay you a little for your trou¬
ble with them.”

“No. You gave them to me outright, ’’
Johnny said sturdily, “but you may
have mine back if you choose to claim
it. But not Lame Donald’s. It is so
much to him, it would kill him to part
with it even to the worshipful prin¬
cess. ”

“Phol You are sharp at a bargain,
young sir,” the old man said, rising
and making toward the door. “But I
agree to it. Fetch me this pot of yours
to the place where we met. There I
shall give you back your shoe for it.
You see, I can give back as well as take
back. ”

“And ym will leave Lame Don¬
ald’s?” Johnny asked. The old man
nodded with a queer, cackling laugh.
The lame boy plucked his sleeve, saying
timidly, “Dear sir, before you go tell
tne, please, the name of my dear flow¬
er. ”

“I will tell him,” the old man an¬
swered, nodding again at Johnny and
walking away. Very shortly Johnny
ran after him, with his own blossom
clasped close to his breast.

In the highway he found not the old
mah bent and withered, but a fine young
fellow in a velvet court suit. Johnny
would never have known him but for
an odd shoe that dangled from his right
hand.

“Take it. It is full of gold,” he said,
smiling, as he reached for the pot. “Be¬
lieve me, you shall have another blos¬
som. It grows thick in fairyland and is
called the Flower of Good Heart.”

Whether he was a fairy prince John¬
ny never knew. But the princess had
for her birthday feast a wonderful white
blossom with heart of spun gold, and,
more wonderful yet, that it grew in a
golden shoe studded thick with genm

Tale of a Vain Little Chick.

A farmyard chick stood by the horse
pond watching a flock of ducklings. Ev¬
ery now and then they put their heads
under water and flung their legs up.

“How very ridiculous!” cried the lit¬
tle chick. “That isn’t the way to get
across. Wait a bit. I’ll show you. ”

In plunged the little chick, but in¬
stead of getting to the other side it went
to the bottom.—-Chicago Record.

Guess Which Hat.

This trick will take the breath away
from your friends when you try it on
them. It is called the wonderful hat.
Take three pieces of bread, or any other
eatable, and three hats. Place the three
pieces of bread on a table and place a
hat over each one. Now lift up each
hat, and, taking the piece of bread
which it covers, eat it before the com¬
pany, replacing each hat, opening down,
as you do so. Then ask those who are
watching you under which hat of the
three they would like to find the bread.
Whichever one is designated, place that
I hat upon your head and say that you
have done as they requested.—Chicago
Record.

IMITATING THE The career of the

Confederate ram

MERRIMAC. Albemarlei which

the gallant Cushing destroyed Oct. 27,
1864, beginning with her deadly sea
fights with Federal blockading vessels
and ending with her collapse at the
wharfs of Plymouth, formed a most
exciting episode in naval warfare. The
rule of the North Carolina sounds by
the Federals was by no means to the
liking of the Confederates, and many
desperate attempts were made to end it.
Orders were given for the construction
of war vessels in the upper waters of the
state, but the work went on slowly, and as
late as April, 1864, the ram Albemarle,
a thing of shreds and patches, lay on
the ways in Roanoke river above Plym¬
outh. On tne 16th of April General
Hoke began an attack on the fortified
post of Plymouth and summoned the
ram to his side. She steamed down the
river, defying the shots of the Federal
guns until two of the enemy’s ships
were sighted. They were the wooden
boats Miami and Southfield, lashed to¬
gether and directed by Fleet Command¬
er C. VV. Flusser, who was on board
the Miami.

Flusser had arranged the fastening
chains so that the ram would be caught
between the two
vessels, but the
captain of the
Albemarle sheer¬
ed to avoid the
trap. Suddenly
turning, he
plunged the iron
prow of the ram
into the si^e of.
the Southfield,
ripping her sides
so that she went
to the bottom at
once. The Miami
opened with lieutenant flusser.

heavy shot and shell, but they made no
impression on the ram. Commander
Flusser handled one gun personally,
and his third shot, an it inch shell, re¬
bounded from the iron shield of the Al¬
bemarle, exploded and killed the brave
gunner, also several men. Meanwhile
the ram got loose from the Southfield
and was making for the Miami. The
latter backed away and returned to Al¬
bemarle sound.

As a result of the Albemarle’s victory
over the wooden ships, General Hoke
made an easy conquest of Plymouth,
capturing General Wessels and his gar¬
rison. The ram at once became a sea
monster, equal in the eyes of friends
and foes to the terrible Merrimac. She
lay off Plymouth until May 6, then
started out to imitate the Merrimac and
wipe out the Federal fleet patrolling Al¬
bemarle sound. The coming of the ram
was expected by Commander Melancton
Smith, and he had devised a clever plan
for her reception. The contending ships
met in the broad sound, the ram dash¬
ing boldly at her enemies, but missing
the mark every time. Her shot, how¬
ever, made havoc with the upper works
of the wooden ships, while the return
fire rolled off her iron sides like hail.
Finally the.Sjassacus, leaping uncivil the

impulse of 'Toosened "'engine wheels,
struck the ram amidships and sent her
stern deck several feet under water. The
moment the vessels collided the ram
sent a shot through the Sassacus, pierc¬
ing her boilers.

One by one the remaining ships in the
line—the Miami, Wyalusing and Mat-
taoesett—got into action and attempted
to ride down the Albemarle or snare
her with a seine or use a spar torpedo
against her. All failed, and the bat¬
tle of three hours was principally one of
artillery, 60 guns on the Federal ves¬
sels against one on the ram. In the
end the ram was glad to escape.

THE MONSTER
HELD IN BOUNDS.

After the drawn
battle with wooden
ships on the 5th of
May the Albemarle retired slowly up
the Roanoke, her foes giving the part¬
ing shots. Three weeks later she drop¬
ped down to the mouth of the river and
began dragging for torpedoes. A few
shots from the Federal guardboats sent
her back to Plymouth, where she re¬
mained to protect the town which she
had won to the Confederates by her first
engagement. Spurred by offers of re¬
ward, a party of sailor volunteers set
out to destroy her at her moorings by
torpedoes. They reached the river above
Plymouth, with two floating machines
carrying 100 pounds of powder each.
The men engaged in this hazardous
work were Charles Baldwin, John W.
Lloyd, Benjamin Lloyd, John Laverty
and Allen Crawford. Baldwin was
nearest the ram, and when he had guid¬
ed the torpedoes by means of a bridle to
within a few yards of the ^vessel, he
was c hallenged by a sentry on shore.

Two shots followed the sentry’s sig¬
nal and then a volley. Believing that
they were discovered, three of the men
deserted after cutting the guide rope.
They reached their ship in the sound
two days later, and their comrades re¬
ported next day without having accom¬
plished the mission. For five months the
Albemarle lay idle at Plymouth, where
Cushing found her moored on the 27th
of October and destroyed her by a deed
unparalleled in war. An account of the
exploit was written out by Cushing be¬
fore he was taken with his fatal illness
in 1872. The best story from the other
side was found in an intercepted letter
from a sailor on the ram. The letter
read:

A Yankee torpedo boat steamed up the river
Thursday night, and about 8 o’clock Friday
morning she ran into the Albemarle, the tor¬
pedo bursting, blowing a hole in her some six
feet long, sinking her immediately. The crew
lost everything. We are in an awful condition.

The commander of the Albemarle
throughout was Captain A. F. Warley.
He said that the ram looked all sound
on top after Cushing’s underthrust, but
the carpenter reported a “hole in her
bottom big enough to drive a wagon
in.” George L. Kilmer.

A NEW KIND OF TOP.

It Is Especially Fitted For Indoor Spin¬
ning and Is Easily Made.

Top season is almost over, but every
boy who ever spun a top will be inter¬
ested in making an entirely new kind
of top that will spin when you blow
upon it.

This top can be made in 15 minutes.
Get a piece of stiff cardboard and cut
from it a oircularjlisk about three inch-

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es in diameter. AT the very' center of it
make a pin hole, and in regular order

slots so that little pieces or 'wings of
cardboard will turn up, as shown in the
cut. One end of these slots may be a
quarter of an inch from the edge of the
disk and the other end may be several
times as far.

An ordinary large sized pin should
now bo inserted through the hole in the
disk and fastened on the underside with
wax, so as to form a pivot on which the
top will spin. Now get an empty spool,
and your top is complete. To spin it
hold the spool lightly in the mouth, in¬
sert the pin in the other end and blow
briskly. At once the top will begin to
revolve, the action of-the'air holding
it tight against the spool without other
support.

Now stop blowing suddenly and the
top will drop out of the spool and con¬
tinue to spin merrily on a table or on a
piece of glass or on a smooth floor.—
Chicago Record.

The Little Boy Who Ban Away.

“I’m going now to run away,”

8aid little Sammy Green one day.

“Then I can do just what I choose.

I’ll never have to black my shoes
Or wash my face or comb my hair.

I’ll find a place, I know, somewhere
And never have again to fill
That old chip basket—so I will.

“Goodby, mammal” he said. “Goodbyl”
He thought his mother then would cry.
She only said, “You going, dear?”

And didn’t shed a single tear.

“There, now,” said Sammy Green, “Iknow
She does not care if I do go.

But Bridget does. She’ll have to fill
That old chip basket, so she will.”

But Bridget only said; “Well, boy,

You’re off for sure. I wish you joy.”

And Sammy’s little sister Kate,

Who swung upon the garden gate.

Said anxiously as he passed through,
“Tonight whatever will you do
When you can’t get no ’lasses spread
At supper time on top of bread?”

One block from home and Sammy Green’s
Weak little heart was full of fear.

He thought about Bed Riding Hood,

The wolf that met her in the wood,

The beanstalk boy who kept so mum
When he heard the giant’s “Fee, fo, fum,”
Of the dai’k night and the policeman.

Then poor Sammy homeward ran.

Quick through the alleyway he sped
And crawled in through the old woodshed.
The big chip basket he did fill.

He blacked his shoes up with a will.

He washed his face and combed his hair.
He went up to his mother’s chair
And kissed her twice, and then he said,
“I’d like some ’lasses top of bread.”

Mrs. S. T. Perry in San Francisco Examiner.

A Tittle Trick.

Perhaps some of you may know the
trick, but those of you that do not will
find it hard to believe that you may
plunge your hand into a bowl of water
and. takQ^from^khe ^lipttona ajping, 05

other small object, without getting your
hand wet. Ret us tell you how to do it.

There is no magic in it, nor is it real¬
ly a trick, as we have called it. All
you have to do is to sprinkle the surface
of the water with some powder that has
no attraction for the water—something
that the water vail not wet. Nothing
better may be had than powdered lyco¬
podium.

Having thrown a handful of this pow¬
der on the surface of the water, plunge
your hand in, take up the ring and show
the spectators that there is not a drop of
moisture on your band.

The reason is that the lycopodium
forms a sort of glove around your hand,
to which water will not adhere any
more than it will to tho back of a dubk.
Water birds may dive time and again
and come to the surface with iheir feath¬
ers as dry as if they had not been un¬
der the surface. The lycopodium gives
the same quality to your hand.—Phila¬
delphia Times.

Just Like a Circus.

Edith, the little daughter of a physi¬
cian in Trenton, was very much im¬
pressed by her first sight of a boy choir,
each member wearing his white sur¬
plice. When she reached home, she
rushed to her father with the startling
intelligence that a lot of boys had gone
to church in their nighties, and they
didn’t care a bit, but just stood up and
sang as loud as they could. Her father
corrected her somewhat hastily. “Sur¬
plices, my dear, surplices. Those were
surplices,’’ he explained. But Edith
was too excited to pay much attention
and caught only part of the word. “CJir-
ouses! Yes, I should think it was circus¬
es. They walked all around just like the
circus. ’’ And when it was all finally ex¬
plained to her, she was much surprised
and amused and a little shocked at her
mistake.—New York Times.

WASHINGTON’S WORDS.

Truths That Hit the Mark Then and Notr.

National Policy.

The politics of the nation have gone
so far from what they were in Washing¬
ton’s era that his thoughts in general
have little application to these times.
In his farewell address, however, on
stepping down from the presidency, he
spoke as a patriot and statesman, and
his words may be classed with those
self evident truths that cannot become
stale or useless. On the subject of per¬
manent union as a means of preserving
liberty he said;

“The unity of government, which
constitutes you one people, is also now
dear to you. It is justly so, for it is a
main pillar in the edifice of your real
independence; the support of your tran¬
quillity at home, your peace abroad; of
your safety; of your prosperity; of that
very liberty which you so highly prize.
But, as it is easy to foresee that, from
different causes and from different quar¬
ters, much pains will be taken, many
artifices employed, to weaken in your
minds the conviction of this truth, as
this is the point in your political for¬
tress against which the batteries of in¬
ternal and external enemies will be
most constantly and actively (though
often covertly and insidiously) directed,
it is of infinite moment that you should
proper ly„esti pa ate the ^immense value of

your naUonaT ufilon to yotrr collective
and individual happiness; that you
should cherish a cordial, habitual and
immoy^ble attachment to it, accustom¬
ing yourselves to think and speak of it
as of the palladium of your political
safety and prosperity, watching for its
preservation with jealous anxiety, dis¬
countenancing whatever may suggest
even a suspicion that it can, in any
event, be abandoned, and indignantly
frowning upon the first dawning of ev¬
ery attempt to alienate any portion of
our country from the rest, or to enfeeble
the sacred ties which now link together
the various parts. ”

Touching foreign relations, a question
of great importance to the young and
struggling nation, he spoke with un¬
usual boldness and vigor. In a broad
sense he urged the maintenance of good
faith and justice toward all and the
cultivation of peace and harmony, and
then, descending to particulars, spoke as
follows:

“In the execution of such a plan noth¬
ing is more essential than that perma¬
nent, inveterate antipathies against par¬
ticular nations and passionate attach¬
ments for others should be excluded, and
that, in place of them, just and amica¬
ble feelings toward all should be culti¬
vated. The nation which indulges to¬
ward another a habitual hatred or a
habitual fondness is in some degree a
slave. It is a slave to its animosity or
to its affection, either of which is suffi¬
cient to lead it astray from its duty and
its interest. Antipathy in one nation
against another disposes each more read¬
ily to offer insult and injury, to lay hold
of slight causes of umbrage and to be
haughty and intractable when accidental
or trifling occasions of dispute occur;
hence frequent collisions, obstinate, en¬
venomed and bloody contests. The na¬
tion, prompted by ill will and resent¬
ment, sometimes impels war to the gov¬
ernment, contrary to the best calcula¬
tions of policy. The government some¬
times participates in the national pro¬
pensity and adopts through passion what
reason would reject; at other times it
makes the animosity of the nation sub¬
servient to projects of hostility instigat¬
ed by pride, ambition and other sinister
and pernicious motives. The peace of¬
ten, sometimes perhaps the liberty, of
nations has been the victim.

“So, likewise, a passionate attachment
of one nation for another produces a va¬
riety of evils. Sympathy for the favorite
nation, facilitating the illusion of an
imaginary common interest in cases
where no real common interest exists,
and infusing into one the enmities of the
other, betrays the former into a partici¬
pation in the quarrels and wars of the
latter, without adequate inducement or
justification. ”

Never Scold*

Avoid the scolding tone. A tired moth¬
er may find it hard to do this, but it is she
who will get most good by observing the
rule. The tone of scolding tells upon the
throat, just where a woman who is not
overstrong is apt to feel the ache of ex¬
treme fatigue. The children, too, who are
great imitators, will be sure to catch th«
scolding tone and will talk to their dolls,
to one another and by and by to their own
children very much as their mothers are
now talking to them*.

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9

YOUNG HOUSE=
KEEPER’S
PAGE.

The Kimono and How to Make It.

The kimono is a simple looking gar¬
ment, but it is positively worth its
weight in diamonds, if one measures
value by the comfort one gets from an in¬
vestment. There is another nice thing
about it, and that is that no matter how
little a woman knows about sewing or,
dressmaking if she can sew at all she
can make for herself a kimono. This is
how to do it:

If you are not too tall and with too
long arms, eight yards of cloth will an¬
swer your purpose. You want four
lengths from your shoulder to three or
four inches from the flcor, two for the
front and two for the back of your gar¬
ment. Sew these lengths together, leav¬
ing that which you intend for the. front
open from top to bottom. Then gather
the top of the back widths and the top
of the front widths, allowing an inch and
a half hem down the front. At the top
of each front width turn down (on the
in, or wrong, side) a Y shaped piece that
will be sufficiently wide for the front of
the neck. Leave double this same
amount on each of the back breadths,
which space gather in for the back of
the neck. Now you have your shoulders
and your neck, the back of the neck on¬
ly gathered. The front neck is plain and
formed by the Y shaped turn down.
Sew the shoulders up without any shap¬
ing whatever. Bind around the back of
the neck and down the Y shaped front
of the neck vith satin ribbon to match
your cloth. The ribbon should be about
two inches wide.

When you have sewed the side seams
up, you have left a slit about eight or
ten inches, more or less, according to
the size of the arm of the wearer, but it
should be loose and comfortable, for the
kimono has missed its vocation if it does
not make you comfortable.

Measure off two widths of the cloth
the length you want the sleeves and sew
them up. Do not shape the sleeves an
atom at either top or bottom. Bind the
bottom of the sleeve with the same satin
ribbon that you have used for the heck.
Sew the sleeve in at the slit you have
left at the arm size. It should go in
without any gathers.

When you hold a kimono up by its
sleeves, it is all angles and no curves.
But it is comfortable beyond compare to
slip on, over the nightdress if necessary,
on a hurry call to any member of the
family who. may have been suddenly
taken ill, or for a thousand and one
other things which every woman knows
about.

Do not be discouraged from the de¬
scription, thinking that it must be too
utterly ugly for any earthly use. It is
not. It is chic looking, Japanese look¬
ing, and if you are ever the owner of
one of these kimonos you will come to
regard life as a failure without one or
more always in stock. —New York Trib¬
une.

Bagdad Portieres.

A word to the contemplating buyer of
Bagdad portieres. They are offered in
the shops at a very low price, but it
will be seen that the stripes are narrow
and the weight of the material not of
good wearing quality. Such would do
possibly for a bedroom portiere or to
throw over a partly worn lounge in some
room where its use would be light, but
for real wear the wider, finer woven fab¬
ric should be sought.

These curtains are very useful, as they
are almost the only couch covers that
aro more than the regulation 50 inch
Width. As the stripes can be bought sep¬
arately it is possible to increase their
width ad libitum As to range in qual¬
ity, one was seen last w T eek for $2.65,
and an hour later in a bric-a-brac shop
hung one valued at $105. This latter
had eight wide stripes, was almost of
the thickness of plush and was beauti¬
fully fine and firm, while its harmony
of coloring, in the main resembling the
cheaper and conventional sort, was a
revelation of its possibilities.—New
York Times.

Trimmed Skirts.

“Are skirts to be trimmed?” is a ques¬
tion daily propounded to the dressmak¬
ers. The answer is invariably and em¬
phatically, yes. The newest French
models are decorated in many ways,
some of them showing the old style
flounces, others with accordion plaited
frills at the hem—sometimes only one
about five inches wide with no frill
showing at the top, being either corded
there or sewed to the skirt on the under¬
side of the gathers at the top and then
turned over. Some of the lighter wools
are made with pointed overskirts, and
again a Grecianlike drapery appears.
Folds, fur bands, braiding, Vandykes,
crenelated edges and lines of gimp—all
are in fashionable use, but, fortunately
for the short, stout women, these deco¬
rated skirts have not come up for favor
to the exclusion of the severely plain
model with its simple, elegant finish
and length giving lines from belt to
hem.—New York Post.

Collars.

The stock collar, with its folds and
finishing rosettes and bows, is not yet
out of style, says a fashion writer, for
it has proved too becoming to many
throats and faces to yet be relinquished,
but it is contesting for favor with neck
trimmings and finishes of many differ¬
ent varieties—V shaped and battlement-
ed shapes standing well away from the
face, arched models high at the back and
rounding to nothing but a point in front,
Medici, Directoire and Robespierre styles
for demidress and ex treme ly .pisiur-

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esque, antique styles tliatTgive an air of
great distinction to the gown and call
for materials of the richest, garnitures
of the most elaborate and costly and oc¬
casions most special, these including
Stuart, Queen Bess, Henri Deux,
Charles IX and Marie Antoinette rep¬
licas that enhance the artistic effect of
the latest and rarest French evening
toilets.

A Society Songstress.

Mrs. Inez Sprague, the second wife of
Governor Sprague of Rhode Island, is
achieving such success with her vocal
music that she will, no doubt, become
more famous than her predecessor, Kate
Chase. The present Mrs. Sprague is a
very beautiful Virginian, belonging to
one of the F. F. Y. ’s of that state. As a
young girl she was quite accomplished,
singing well to her own accompaniment.
Some two years ago she had her voice
tried and by the advice of a master
went to Paris to have her voice cultivat¬
ed. She applied herself assiduously with
the best of results. Her voice has a mar¬
velously long range, with a full middle
register and great dramatic power.—
Philadelphia Times.

New York W. S. A. Officers.

The present officers of the New York
State Woman Suffrage association are:
President, Jean Brooks Greenleaf, 64
North Goodman,street, Rochester; vice
president at large, Mariana W. Chap¬
man, 160 Hicks street, Brooklyn; cor¬
responding secretary, Isabel Howland,
Sherwood; recording secretary, Harriet
May Mills, 926 West Genesee street,
Syracuse; treasurer, Kate S. Thompson,
60 Allen street, Jamestown; auditors,
HenriettaM. Banker, CorneliaK. Hood;
chairman of committee on organization,
Harriet May Mills; chairman of legis¬
lative committee, Maude S. Humphrey,
Warsaw ; superintendent of press work,
Elnora M. Babcock, jpunkirk.

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COIN DEPARTMENT.

We continue this month our list of all the U.
S. coins actually worth more than face value.

The prices appended are approximately those
now offered by coin dealers for the purchase of

these rare dates.

GOLD DOLLARS.

1863 . . . . 3 50

1864 . . . 4 00

1865 . . . . 3 50

1866 . . , 1 25

1867 . . . . 1 20

1868 . . . 1 10

1869 . . . . 1 10

1870 . . . 1 15

1871 . . . . 1 20

1875 . . . . 3 50

GOLD 2 DOLLARS 50 GTS.

3 00

4 00
4 00
2 60

; » 2 60

2 60
2 60
2 60
2 60

[ . 2 60

3 00
2 00

1796, no stars,
1796, stars,

1797 .

1798
1802

1804

1805

1806

1807

1808
1821
1824

1826 4 00

SILVER HALF DIMES.

1794

•

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150

1795

50

1796

3

4

«

1 00

1797,15 stars,

1 50

1800

60

1801

r

a

$

»

1 25

1802

25 00

1803

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1805

2 00

1846

9

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SILVER DIMES.

The committee of the University Athletic Club has submitted
a report on the advisability of changing the scene of action of
future football games between Yale and Princeton. The objec¬
tion to New York is. the publicity the annual game is subjected
to in a great metropolis made up of various classes of
society more interested in.football as a game than in the col¬
lege spirit of athletic rivalship.

To the satisfaction of all the students of Cornell a contract
has been- made with coach Courtney by the terms of which
the latter will remain with the college for at least three years.

The gymnasium enters into the new method of church evangel¬
ization. In the vestries of not a few progressive churches
gymnasiums have been fitted up for the purpose of interesting
the boys and young men of the community in the church. In
the gymnasium of the Yermilye chapel of New York may be
found almost any evening thirty or more boys practicing under
an instructor in the art of boxing, running, jumping, and in
the use of the parallel bars.

The English college rowers have a great advantage over
the oarsmen in American colleges. Their preparation always
begins in the preparatory school. Only those who have had
experience in rowing before entering college are allowed
to row in the 'varsity of either of the great English colleges,
Cambridge or Oxford.

Princeton’s new Tackling Machine resembles a derrick
with a millstone attached to it. The weight swings to and
fro, now and then settling down pretty heavily upon the
shoulders of the man beneath it. This weight, however, he
is supposed to overcome by feigning to escape from a sudden
tackle.

SCIENCE & INVENTION.

An elevated road two miles in length is to be built in Tokio,
Japan.

1796

1797

1798
1800

1801

1802

1803

1804

1805
1807

1809

1811

1822

1846

75

150

100
1 00

1 00
1 50
1 00
5 00

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35

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35
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Electricity is now successfully transmitted from Niagara
Falls to Buffalo. January 12th a great banquet was held in
Buffalo to celebrate the event.

Mr. W. H. Preece, the telegraphic expert of the London
post-office has invented.a method of telegraphing on short dis¬
tances without the use of wires. When the current is set in
motion at one end of the route it simply passes through the
atmosphere causing a vibration at the other.

Dr. Andree intends to make a second attempt to reach the
North Pole by balloon.

A theatre with the stage in the middle of the house,
rather than at one end, has recently been built in New York.
It contains two auditoriums, one on each side of the stage. By
glancing across the stage the audience in the opposite auditor¬
ium looks directly into the faces of the second audience in the
opposite auditorium. This new arrangement brings the stage
nearer to everybody in the house than does the old plan.

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No. 94,—Transport. ms. *

Satisfy the following blanks with words
containing the same letters:

1. It is not too-to hear the-of

the catching of a ■——.

2. Jerry drove the three-cows down

the-.

3. Did you see —— dash by on her ——*
horse?

4. Arthur seized a-from the fence

and rushed recklessly into the —— of the
wolf.

5. -and-each ate a West Indian

—— for breakfast.

No. 95.—Flower Puzzle.

The nannw cf four flowers are here repre¬
sented.—Ohio Farmer.

No. 96.—A Diamond.

A consonant; a negative; big; places
where flowers grow; coarseness; puzzles;
an animal; a kind of biscuit; a boat; boy’s
name; a consonant.

No. 98.—Missing Rhymes.

1 .

There was a young scapegrace named
Who desired foreign countries to
He sailed from
And was storm tossed
He was cast on an isle, for it

' 1

2 .

A convict once had in his ’

A lad, called familiarly ■ !

Though poor his ‘

He’d great '

But his g&est took a perilous

8 .

A young lady grew slimmer and
And then found herself stouter and
She fell, when
Down a shaft very
And adventures most strange did

No. 99.—Word Squares.

1. The Dr.-no of a river in England. 9.
A range of mountains between Europe and
Asia. 8. A man’s name. 4. A woman’s
name.

1. Amusement. 2. Solitary. 3. A wo¬
man’s name. 4. A natural period of time.

1. Not the whole; to separate. 2. A plant
which rarely blooms. 3. A beautiful and
fragrant flower. 4. A river in the north
of England.

No. 97.—A Novel Acrostic.

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The letters represented by stars spell the
surname of a famous poet.

Cross words: 1. A kind of crossbow for¬
merly used for shooting stones. 2. Twelve
o’clock. 8. Substance. 4. Military stores
of all kinds. 6. Pertaining to rural life
and scenes. 6. A king’s daughter. 7. A
trader. 8. To ponder over.

No. 100.—-Progressive Enigma.

oooooo ooooooo oooooo

1 , 2, “depart.”

I, 2, 8, 4, a precious metal.

8 , 8, 4, “aged.”

4, 6, 6, “a lair.”

7, 8, 9, 10, “to shout in exultation.”

7, 8, 9, 10, 11, “to invest with royal dig¬
nity.”

8 , 9, 10, “a line.”

9, 10, 11, “to possess.”

II , 12, 13, a boy’s nickname.

14, 15, 16, 17, phonetic for “from begin¬
ning to end.”

16, 17, 18, 19, “to push forward with
violence.”

The whole is a throstle.

No. 101.—Pied Verse.

Het sorhenem adn het tomenfo
Rea riuopng ni maain
Romf myan a etslayt karmet lcaep,
Romf nyam a ritfuufL lnaip,
Rctqif.ayaxrLa-leoylii mel^lat.

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CiSKw, ic'd lly ecEeFTicTa" mpe,

Keil na geale’s etsn ngska no het serefc
Fo plprue Aennpeni.

No. 103.—Buried Names of Girls.

1 . I am both glad and sorry about her.

9. I will sot the clock at eleven.

8 . Your mamma yet says no, David.

4. I do not know why Ethel laughed at
me.

6 . Martha, my new doll is broken.

6 . The poor old man never comes up to
see me now.

7. Please do rap at his door, Harry.

Why She Knew I*.

Mr. and Mrs. Sparrow had gone away
for a visit with a neighbor, leaving their
children asleep in the nest. When ap¬
proaching their home on their return,
Mrs. Sparrow noticed her little ones scat¬
tered on the ground under the nest.

“Oh,” she exclaimed, all in a flutter,
“those children have quarreled!”

“How do you know?” inquired Mr.
Sparrow.

“Because—can’t you see that they have
fallen out?”

Key to the Puzzler.

No. 88.—Numerical Enigma: Happiness
grows at our own fireside and is not to be
pioked in strangers’ gardens.

No. 89.—English Towns In Enigmas:
1. New-oastle. 2. Ply-mouth. 8. Swan¬
sea. 4. Wig-an. 5. Ash-ton. 6. Oak¬
ham. 7. Black-burn. 8. Ox-ford. 9.
Scar-borough. 10. Wood stock.

No. 90.—A Riddle: Mint.

No. 91.—Illustrated Primal Aorostlo: 1.
Ink. 2. Rabbit. 3. Vulture. 4. Ibis.
5. Nut. 6. Guitar.

No. 92.—Beheaded Words: 1. Coat, oat,
at. 2. Alone, lone, one.

No. 93.—Fruitful Anagrams: 1. Melon,
or lemon. 2. Raspberry. 3. Strawberry.
4. Pineapple. 5. Orange. 6. Banana.

Green Soap.

Since women have taken to studying
medicine, attending clinics and visiting
hospital wards with scientific interest they
have learned the value of green soap.
Green soap, which comes in paste form, is
an antiseptic and is much used in hospitals
and by physicians who come into contact
with many varieties of uncleanliness dur¬
ing a day’s work. It is particularly be¬
loved of those who make a specialty of
scalp diseases, for it is as a hair soap that
it is particularly valuable. After washing
the head with it the hair is more silky,
shiny and soft than after treatment with
ordinary washes, and its effect is, more¬
over, stimulating to the growth of hair and
generally beneficiaL,

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